Shirt.



-N0.-ase,410. I PATENTED MAY 5,1908.

. e. G. ROGKWOOD.

SHIRT.

APPLIUATION FILED OUT. 23, 1907.

mvmron earye aclwaaij l TTORNEYS WITNESSES IIIT ll:

sr'rns GEORGE ROCKWOOD, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

SHIRT.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE G. Roonwoon, a citizen of the United States, and residing at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Shirts, of which the following is a specification, such as will enable those skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to shirts and particularly to what are known as stiff bosom shirts; and the object thereof is to provide a shirt of this class the bosom of which is connected with the body of the shirt by a folded flexible web which extends entirely around the bosom except where the latter is connected with the yoke and neck band of the shirt, whereby any movement of the body will not necessarily twist, wrinkle or break the bosom, and the latter will retain its form.

The invention is fully disclosed in the following specification, of which the accompanying drawing forms a part, in which the separate parts of my improvement are designated by suitable reference characters in each of the views, and in which Figure 1 is a front view of an ordinary stiff bosom shirt constructed according to my invention, part of the bosom being broken away at one side to better show the construc tion; Fig. 2 a transverse section on the line 22 of Fig. 1 and on an enlarged scale; and, Fig. 3 a partial section on the line 3-3 of Fig. 1 and on an enlarged scale.

In the drawing forming part of this specification, I have shown at a, a shirt provided with a stiff bosom b, and in Figs. 2 and 3 of the drawing, the back of the shirt is shown at a and the front thereof at a In the practice of my invention, I connect the bosom b with the front a of the shirt by means of a folded flexible web 0 composed of any suitable textile material, the fold of the web 0 being what is known as a bellows fold. The web 0 is formed separately from linen or other suitable textile material and is stitched to the front a of the shirt at c and to the bosom b at 0 In the construction shown, the web 0 is folded but once, but it will be apparent that said web may be provided with a number of such folds made in the manner of the folds of a bellows and the transverse dimensions of Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed October 23, 1907.

Patented May 5, 1908.

Serial No. 398,705.

the web a is enplain, or be provided with'central vertically arranged plaits. With my improvement the bosom willretain its shape and will not be crimped, crumpled, bent or broken by reason of the various movements of the body, all such movements being taken up by, or expended in the folded web 0. In practice, I may also provide the folded web 0 with ventilation perforations, or openings 0 which will be of advantage in warm weather, but the said ventilation perforations, or openings, are not an essential feature of my invention and may or may not be employed. In my improvement the front of the shirt is provided with an opening which corresponds in position and shape with the position and shape of the bosom, but the dimensions of which are slightly less than the dimensions of the said bosom, and the web 0 is secured around the edges of said opening, and the bosom is thus supported in front of the body portion of the shirt and is free to move independently thereof, and said web is entirely concealed by the bosom.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Let ters Patent, is

1. A shirt provided with a bosom, the body portion of the shirt being. provided with an opening which corresponds in form to the form of the bosom and the dimensions of which are slightly less than the dimensions of the bosom, and the'bosom being connected with the body portion of the shirt by a bellows fold of textile material which extends entirely around the said opening except at the neck portion of the shirt, whereby the bosom of the shirt is supported in the front of the body ortionthereof and is free to move indepen ently of said body portion.

2. A shirt provided with a bosom, the body portion of the shirt being provided with an opening which corresponds in form to the form of the bosom andthe dimensions of which are slightly less than the dimensions of the bosom, and the bosom being connected withthe body portion of the. shirt by a bellows fold of textile material which 6X- tends entirely around the said opening except at the neck portion of the shirt, whereby my invention I have signed my name in presthe bosom of the shirt is supported in the ence of the subscribing Witnesses this 22nd front of the body portion thereof and is free day of October, 1907.

to move independently of said body portion, GEORGE G. ROCKWOOD. 5 said bellows fold being provided with venti- Witnesses:

lating perforations. C. E. MULREANY,

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as M. E. DooDY. 

